By Cong. Michael McCaul
Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than one year after the World Health Organization declared a pandemic, the world is still reeling from the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the disease it causes, COVID-19. More than 4 million people have lost their lives worldwide, including more than 612,000 Americans, while economies around the world have been devastated by the fallout. This report investigates the origin of this virus and looks at how it became a deadly pandemic
All roads lead to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). We know gain-of-function research was happening there and we know it was being done in unsafe conditions. We also now know the head of the Chinese CDC & the director of the WIV’s BSL-4 lab publicly expressed concerns about safety at PRC labs.
Chinese Communist Party officials and scientists at the WIV (Wuhan Institute of Virology) then began frantically covering up the leak, including taking their virus database offline in the middle of the night and requesting more than $1 million for additional security.
But their coverup was too late – the virus was already spreading.
It is also concerning the scientific community told the American people for more than a year it was impossible to modify a virus without leaving a trace when this technology existed more than 14 years before the pandemic began.
Researchers at the WIV were also able to successfully modify coronaviruses without leaving a trace as early as 2016. Therefore it is no longer appropriate for anyone to dismiss the notion this virus could have been genetically modified before it leaked from the WIV.
Now is the time to use all of the tools the U.S. government has to continue to root out the full truth of how this virus came to be. That includes subpoenaing Peter Daszak, the current president of EcoHealth Alliance, to appear before the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Congress must pass legislation to sanction scientists at the WIV and CCP officials who participated in this cover-up.
A cover-up of all time and has caused the deaths of more than 4 million people around world, and people must be held responsible.Congressman Michael T. McCaul represents Texas' 10th Congressional District stretching between the suburbs of Austin and Houston. Having served as the Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security for three session of Congress prior to being term-limited by House Republican's operating procedures, you can learn more about Congressman McCaul by clicking here.
